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Oh Rovio, what were you thinking?

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The new update to Angry Birds on Android added new level pack but also something that caused the game to become unplayable for a significant number of customers. Sometimes measurements in order to try to increase revenue actually backfire, as happens in this case.

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Mysterious fastprox WMI crasher for Source games

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Yesterday I noticed I could not launch Left 4 Dead 2. It would just crash right when starting up. The same applied to many other Source based games too: Half-Life 2, HL2:e1, HL2:e2, Portal, Left 4 Dead and Alien Swarm. Interestingly enough, some Source based games worked, though. There were no problems starting Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Counter-Strike: Source, Team Fortress 2 or Half-Life 2: Lost Coast. The faulting module was shaderapidx9.dll, but there was not much more information about the cause of the crash.

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